When interfacing with a microcontroller, VSS and VDD pins of the 16×2 Character LCD is connected to 0V (GND) and +5V (VCC) of the concerened circuit respectively.

The LCD panel can be used with any Arduino-compatible board, so it can be useful in a whole host of projects. Stick around to see a simple demo of the board in use.

[Hounjini] was poking around at the Game Boy Advanced bus of his Nintendo DS lite and figured out how to use it to connect an Arduino to the DS. For testing he’s soldered an IDC plug to the c… ...